Elmira, ON \u2013 On February 10, 2014 the Canadian Council of Christian Charities (CCCC) submitted a letter to the Nova Scotia Barristers\u2019 Society (NSBS) outlining concerns about the review of Trinity Western University\u2019s (TWU) application for a law school.\u00a0 In December\u00a0 2013, both the Federation of Law Societies of Canada and the B.C. Government approved TWU\u2019s law school.\u00a0 However, after considerable opposition from the Canadian Council of Law Deans and other legal academics, several law societies decided to conduct their own independent review of the TWU\u2019s law school proposal.\u00a0 The opposition to TWU\u2019s\u00a0 proposal is based on TWU\u2019s religious teaching and practice concerning marriage.<\/p>\n
CCCC recognizes that there is a diversity of opinion and religious beliefs on matters such as marriage and sexuality, even to some degree within our own membership.\u00a0 However, CCCC is deeply troubled about the wider implications for religious freedom that extend beyond this particular issue.\u00a0 CCCC is concerned that a religious institution of higher learning is being challenged because of its religious beliefs, whatever they might be, and not on the quality of its academic program.\u00a0 Further, CCCC is concerned that a professional body could potentially refuse to licence a professional graduate based not on his\/her level of professional competence but on the religious beliefs of his\/her alma mater<\/i>.<\/p>\n
It is the position of CCCC that such discrimination against a religious institution and religious professionals violates the equality and religious freedom protections in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Read the CCCC submission<\/a> and Frequently Asked Questions<\/a> about this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Elmira, ON \u2013 On February 10, 2014 the Canadian Council of Christian Charities (CCCC) submitted a letter to the Nova Scotia Barristers\u2019 Society (NSBS) outlining concerns about the review of Trinity Western University\u2019s (TWU) application for a law school.\u00a0 In December\u00a0 2013, both the Federation of Law Societies of Canada… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ts_fic_featured_image_caption":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-16709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16709"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=16709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}